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tekla 💜✨

@tekla.bsky.social
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writer, artist, feminist, fancy. dedicated to reproductive freedom, LGBTQ+ liberation, and racial justice. professionally trans over at A4TE, but all views shared here = my own.

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Hemry, Local Bartender @bartenderhemry.bsky.social · 17h
there's a world where trump doesn't start trade wars and war-wars and goes into the midterms as just a normal-unpopular president
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tekla 💜✨ @tekla.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
what a total goddamn waste of time
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tekla 💜✨ @tekla.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
it’s also fun to pay a zillion dollars a month for daycare that she can’t go to :(
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tekla 💜✨ @tekla.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
and it will be paid in blood (and/or snot)
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tekla 💜✨ @tekla.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
anyway i was doing some reading about how to reduce airborne virus transmission bc im thinking of buying an air purifier for their daycare, and depressingly the best intervention is just having the windows open all the time. and there’s no way the center would do that. sigh.
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tekla 💜✨ @tekla.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
I was warned, i knew it was gonna suck, but i think we were quite unlucky. as is usual with margolina’s health stuff, somehow. hate thinking about how i probably gave her my awful genes and immune situation and maybe hEDS!
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tekla 💜✨ @tekla.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
took her to the doc today and she was breathing heavy and so we had to administer baby albuterol. which is just a little mask over her nose and mouth but which she clearly believed was going to Kill Her
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tekla 💜✨ @tekla.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
this brought to you by Margot having RSV and Robin having some other mystery virus in direct sequence, and then everyone being less sick for a beautiful 48 hours before Miss M got the worst diaper rash known to man and then caught Robin’s mystery virus
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tekla 💜✨ @tekla.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
personally i think the tradeoff of having the babies in daycare is one of the worst monkey’s paw scenarios ever devised. you will have more brain space and they will get to play with other children, which are great, but also everyone will be unbelievably ill all of the time. with plague
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tekla 💜✨ @tekla.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Always strikes me how evil it is for these people to just sort “bathroom/locker room assault” into “must have been a trans person” when the VAST majority of all assaults are by cis men. In addition to being violently anti-trans, it manages to elide the real source of the violence.
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Greg Pak @gregpak.net · 05/10/2026
This hearing thus far is a waste that helps the companies. They WANT to talk about bullshit AGI sci fi scenarios - they DON'T want to talk about current harms from their slop tech like theft from creators, cognitive decline, fraud, environmental damage, disinfo, and links to murder and suicide.
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letithappenalreadymama @pnutsmama.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
ANOTHA ONE
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The New Republic @newrepublic.com · 05/10/2026
If House Democrats don’t use every tool at their disposal to name names, kick ass, and stop further destruction, there will be hell to pay with the base. trib.al/R0rSJ30
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The Long and Extremely Urgent To-Do List if Democrats Take the House
If House Democrats don’t use every tool at their disposal to name names, kick ass, and stop further destruction, there will be hell to pay with the base.
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Needhi Bhalla 💅🏽 @needhibhalla.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
An entire generation of faculty and students (rightfully!) fully internalized “the institution cannot love you” and institutional leaders wonder where trust went 🙄
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Taniel @taniel.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Big news in the Senate battle. After pouring $30 million in NC, John Thune's GOP SuperPAC stops spending there, effectively conceding Cooper is likely to win. And they're dumping their first 7-figures in Kansas. (Note: a Dem internal found Hamilton up today.) www.semafor.com/article/10/0...
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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
We cannot & do not need to talk across difference with far right authoritarians. We need to defeat them & defend democracy & the rule of law.
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tekla 💜✨ @tekla.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
one of my favorite photos ever. I used it prominently in last year’s Trans Day of Remembrance report. www.transremembrance.org/insights-and...
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Insights and Data — Trans Remembrance Project
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tekla 💜✨ @tekla.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Icarus! the story that famously ended so well!
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Marianne Dhenin @mariannedhe.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Have you seen my interview with Evan Urquhart? Evan founded Assigned Media, and I asked him what it's like to run one of the most trusted and most beloved trans news sites. Don't miss it! CC @evanurquhart.bsky.social @assignedmedia.org
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Journos on Journos: Evan Urquhart
The founder of Assigned Media shares what it means to write trans news that the community trusts.
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Angie Nixon @angieforfl.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
The most ordinary man imaginable came to my home state to tell me to ‘get out of America’ while he & Absent Ashley enjoyed the comfort of buildings my ancestors helped build. Imagine standing on the shoulders of the ppl who built this country & then telling their descendants they don’t belong here/2
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darth™️ @darthbluesky.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
my inner voice telling me not to go to sleep just yet there is one more thing to ponder
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tekla 💜✨ @tekla.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
it’s been a really hard time :( eight of us laid off, four more who took voluntary separation but were on the chopping block as well.
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tekla 💜✨ @tekla.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
they give me hope, every day. also she looooves my daughter. these two are absolutely In Cahoots
Chosen niece Marcie holds baby Margot. they are thrilled to be with each other and thinking mischievious thoughts Marcie and margot sit on the bed and they were clearly plotting something before being rudely interrupted Marcie fans Margot at her very hot 1st birthday party this summer. Important to know Margles is wearing a tiny crown
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tekla 💜✨ @tekla.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
They laid off about 1/4 of the total staff, and almost half of our bargaining unit. It’s been wild.
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tekla 💜✨ @tekla.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
she loves coming to pride, too. “My favorite is the people look like rainbows and there’s the prettiest girls in the world”
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Union of Legal Workers for Trans Liberation @ulw4tl.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Read more about yesterday’s layoff thanks to @advocate.com www.advocate.com/news/a4te-la...
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Workers fought to save jobs at a national trans rights group. Then came a one-sentence layoff email
Advocates for Trans Equality says a $2.4 million deficit forced painful cuts. Its union says management rejected alternatives that could have saved jobs.
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Union of Legal Workers for Trans Liberation @ulw4tl.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Yesterday was the final day of employment for eight laid-off union workers at Advocates for Trans Equality (A4TE). This is how they were informed:
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Gender Liberation Movement @genderlib.com · 01/10/2026
As hospitals across the country cave to the Trump administration’s threats to cut federal funding and abandon trans youth, actor Elliot Page speaks out. In New York City, NYU Langone, Mount Sinai, and NewYork-Presbyterian abruptly ended care for trans kids in response to these threats.
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tekla 💜✨ @tekla.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Y’all deserve all the $$$! And know that me and many others will jump at the chance 💞
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tekla 💜✨ @tekla.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
omg I didn’t even catch that! That’s me and my niece :)))) she loved being there that day.
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tekla 💜✨ @tekla.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
The way I want to work with GLM so bad!
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Talia "ATTACK DOGS is out now!" Bhatt ⚢ @taliabhatt.itch.io · 30/09/2026
I'm sick of the pretense that male homosociality isn't based in the veneration of violence against the vulnerable. I have seen the inside of men's "brotherhoods" and all they are is hierarchies of violence where anyone who doesn't support predatory behavior becomes a target of it.
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Jason Koebler @jasonkoebler.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
for real though the "model welfare" people who are worried about the ethical treatment of nonsentient computer programs are absolutely deranged, very well-funded, and extremely dangerous; is also the core ideology of Anthropic
One of the most heated discussions occurring on X at the moment is about the ethics of a GitHub project in which a person is running Saw-like “torture” and “pain” experiments on a series of locally hosted large language models, causing a series of effective altruists and people who believe LLMs are sentient to beg GitHub to delete the project on the grounds that the AI is suffering and that this glorified text adventure game is somehow cruel. The saga is an outgrowth of several recent viral papers and blog posts that have sparked a wildly tiresome conversation about AI consciousness and the idea of “model welfare,” which is essentially worrying about the “mental health” of AI bots and agents.
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Waschesalon Grammy Campaign Manager @reginageorgebush.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
had someone quite angry at this and frankly I don't know what you expect to achieve in politics if you can't grasp that "this person who sucks moved our way slightly due to pressure from our side" is good and a sign that you should keep pushing them
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tekla 💜✨ @tekla.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
this is the thing that keeps getting me. They’re not in the real world! They literally only think in terms of what’s on their screen and on their podcasts, and not at all about actual physical realities.
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Every single member of this administration sees themselves, first and foremost, as a Content Creator™ It's like they staffed an administration with homeschooled aliens who learned about humanity through mainlining TikTok accounts. Just unbelievable levels of sweaty dorkiness.
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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
😎😎😎😎😎😎😎😎😎😎😎😎😎😎😎😎😎😎😎😎😎😎😎😎😎😎. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
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DOJ now 0-26 after judge rejects demand for Georgia voter rolls
The judge said the Civil Rights Act does not authorize DOJ's demands for the Peach State’s unredacted voter roll.
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tekla 💜✨ @tekla.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
And how tf are you going to have any cybersecurity without trans people??
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tekla 💜✨ @tekla.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
jesus christmas
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tekla 💜✨ @tekla.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
This is literally what happens when you fire all the brilliant trans women who were in charge of our entire cybersecurity infrastructure.
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Jessica Luther @jessicawluther.com · 30/09/2026
Gendered violence is a systemic cultural and societal problem. And when one of these cases boils to the top, you can see that in how many survivors come forward to explain how similar their experiences are, in ways both big and small.
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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Their goal is to FULLY outlaw abortion everywhere. I hope that folks know this and that they will not rest. So the question is what are we who are pro-abortion rights doing?
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Ed Burmila @edburmila.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
[SENATOR ERIC SCHMITT]: So you’re telling me under oath that you’ve never spoken with a bestselling author who is insane [JACK SMITH]: No [SCHMITT]: WELL THEN *unveils poster* please explain this picture of you with Naomi Wolf! [SMITH]: That is Naomi Klein sir
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Anne Helen Petersen @annehelen.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
This is *the* piece. Kate Manne, professor of philosophy at Cornell, speaks truth to the totality of failures at the university — and why students protesting the war in Gaza have faced far harsher consequences than any of the Cornell 7: www.thecut.com/article/what...
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What It Feels Like at Cornell Right Now
As a professor at the Ivy League school, Kate Manne has known many, many victims. There’s a palpable feeling on campus, she writes, that this is big.
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🦀🎃Fake Crab in a SPOOOKY Snail Suit @desmigeo.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
There's always a backlash against progress for marginalized communities unless it's too small to matter So no MeToo didn't go too far BLM didn't go too far The Civil Rights Act of 1964 did not go too far The Voting Rights Act did not go too far The backlash is against progress, not excess
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Rabbi Danya Ruttenberg @theradr.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Sometimes I think about where we would be as a culture today if #MeToo in 2017 had radicalized more straight men into fighting sexual abuse instead of creating a culture of "oh god don't get me CANCELED" and "fake accusations" paranoia and resentment
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Katherine Alejandra Cross @quinnae.com · 29/09/2026
Indeed. This point can't be stressed enough. "Sex-based" is a term we've always used to describe *discrimination*, and its sudden mainstreaming as pseudo-feminism in the UK reveals it as a poison that unravels the entire liberal democratic architecture of civil rights. I wrote about it here.
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The Potemkin Feminism of "Sex-Based Rights"
"Sex-based rights" are a Potemkin feminism that commit us to a theory of objective sex where there is something special about your very biology that entitles you to special treatment not deserved by o...
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Martha, but like, super spooky @mostlymartha.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Every single company is run like an investment whose only responsibility is short term "line go up". A sock factory will sell the knitting machines to bump the YOY numbers and then act surprised when they can't make any socks to sell twelve weeks later.
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Mikhail Gorbaechev @mikhailgorbaechev.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
The Trump era has really fucked everyone up in profound ways. Turns out electing the physical embodiment of the most demonic things about American society to the Presidency was a mistake
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Coach Finstock @coachfinstock.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Welcome to the party, pal. See? You didn't need to ask some expensive consultant group, you can just follow my feed and will help you win for free.
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